Mangiaracina Silvana

Senior Scientist
Laurea cum laude in Mathematics, 1983, University of Palermo
Research fellow of the National Research Council, 1985, at the Department of Mathematics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Master in Library Management and Admnistration, 2002, Cattolica University of Sacro Cuore, Milano

Her scientific interests are in multimedia systems for teaching and learning, computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), human-computer interaction (HCI), digital libraries, Science & Technology bibliometric indicators. For more than 20 years she has been actively involved in the development and exploitation of ICT technologies in order to create innovative information services for a scientific research community. She has directed Italian national projects on library resource sharing and open access of scientific publications. She has been also involved in research in bibliometric S&T indicators, collaborating with several Italian research institutions and the Italian Ministry of Foreign affairs.

ATTIVITÃ

Since 1997, Head of the Central Library (http://biblio.bo.cnr.it) of the National Research Council, Research Area of Bologna.

Creator and manager of NILDE (http://nilde.bo.cnr.it), a nation-wide service for resource sharing, used by more than 700 Italian research, university and public libraries and more than 12.000 their end-users.

Member of the Scientific-Technical committee of the Italian IDEM ( IDEntity Management for service access) Federation, run by the GARR consortium.

PUBBLICAZIONI

She has more than 80 publications in international and national journals and conference proceedings, books, technical reports and communications; has tutored several Computer Science theses; has been invited lecturer and has participated in the scientific committee of many Italian conferences. It is available an updated list of recent publications, with open-access full-text.